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Thursday, April 14, 2016

2.12.9.6. Elizabeth May Muir (1921-2009)

Elizabeth "Betty" May Muir was born on 17 May 1921 in Dearborn, Michigan, to Peter Semple Muir and Mayme Zebio. She was their sixth child, though two had died as infants earlier. Her older sister, Irene died the year after Elizabeth was born. By 1930 the family lived in Palmyra Township, Michigan, where Betty's father worked as a steam fitter at an auto factory. Sometime between 1935 and 1940 the family moved to 9335 Hubbell Avenue in Detroit.

At the age of 21, Betty enlisted in the Women's Army Corps on 28 August 1942 and become an aviation cadet. She married Andy Simon Telek, son of Simon Telek and Mary Lakatos, on 28 September 1946 in Detroit, the year before Betty's father died. They had one child.

By 1954 Andy and Betty lived in Birmingham, Michigan, on 1967 Hazel Street. Andy worked as an insurance agent. They moved to the Tampa area of Florida in 1981 where they lived in Sun City.

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